Focus Mastery

Focus skills grant you protection and gain reduced recharge. — In-game description

Focus Mastery

Specialization

Valor (trait list)

Tier

Adept

Type

Major

Training cost

3 Hero points

Game link

API

API

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Focus Mastery

Focus skills grant you protection and gain reduced recharge.

 Protection (4s): -33% Incoming Damage

 Protection (2s): -33% Incoming Damage

 Resolution (4s): Incoming condition damage decreased by 33%.

 Recharge Reduced: 20%

— In-game description

Notes

	Skill	Traited recharge
Focus	Ray of Judgment	20	→	16
	Shield of Wrath	25	→	20

Version history

For a detailed trait history, see here.

Patch	Changes
November 05, 2025	Reduced the protection duration from 4 seconds to 2 seconds in WvW and PvP.
June 25, 2024	This trait now also grants resolution when using a focus skill.
March 19, 2024	Protection from this trait will now apply when Shield of Wrath expires instead of when it activates.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Focus Mastery has been added to the game. It inherits functionality from Focused Mastery.